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Since the year 2011 I maintain the Calendar of ICT Holidays for the members of the Computer Engineers Association of Spain (Asociación de Técnicos de Informática, ATI) and for the professionals of the Information and Communication Technologies in general. The Calendar is published through the Google Calendar application in formats iCal and HTML, which means that is possible to subscribe from every kind of agenda and e-mail applications, and also view the calendar as a web page or insert it in one. The calendar is available in English, Spanish and Galician. The news is that this year the Calendar is doubly updated: in addition of towards the future, also towards the past. Now the Calendar holds also all the editions of the holidays previous to 2011. Now it's not only an announcement of what is to come, but also a register of the past.
- English: International ICT Holidays · iCal · HTML
- Spanish: Celebraciones TIC Internacionales · iCal · HTML
- Galician: Celebracións TIC Internacionais · iCal · HTML
Note: For 2017 three of the holidays aren't still announced and therefore the date could be modified. Subscribing to the Calendar allows to get the updates.
[Editor note: Author is a native Spanish speaker, I left his English as submitted.]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 21 2017, @01:13PM
I always wonder why these kinds of semi-English texts end up this way.
Do the authors not realize their English is mangled? Can they not find a random other person to proofread a paragraph? Do they not care?
Not trying to be mean or anything, just genuinely wondering.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 24 2017, @10:20AM
As a spanish native speaker, that has to write in english occasionally, I'll try to answer:
"Do the authors not realize their English is mangled?" Well, no. When I realize that I am making a mistake I try correct it, so any error you see, you can safely asume that I did not realize.
"Can they not find a random other person to proofread a paragraph?" Well, probably not. If you had to write a post in spanish, how many spanish native speaking people do you know willing to revise your work?
"Do they not care?" Probably they do, and it is likely they are already doing their best. Beyond that, all we foreigners can do, is ask for a bit of patience from you, natives.